Article December 11, 1915 Issue

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with contributions from R. J. Campbell, William T. Foster, Alfred Williams Anthony, Frank N. Riale, J. J. Knap

[Rev. R. J. Campbell, M.A., in The Christian Commonwealth]

It is not Christianity that has failed, or the churches either, whatever their faults and shortcomings; it is civilization that has failed, or rather that ideal of civilization which is concerned wholly with material progress and has made mankind to be absorbed in that to the exclusion of almost everything else; it has blinded the vision of the race, and we see the result. Having rejected Christ's way and chosen another, whatever may be laid to the charge of churches and preachers the so-called civilized world is having to pay the price. What we are witnessing and enduring is the inevitable outcome of a wrong view of life and its possibilities to which civilization has stood committed. We see now, or ought to see, the utter futility of trying to put the world right by multiplying our possessions and increasing our command of the resources of nature. Nothing will save us but a change of heart, and that will never be effected by swords and guns, not to speak of the whole background of deplorable assumptions and convictions out of which commercialism and militarism arise.

[William T. Foster in The Christian Register]

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